After fundamental differences with Nabila Mounib of the PSU and unfulfilled objectives, MP Omar Balafrej threw in the towel. He is leaving the political office of the Left Federation (FGD) and will not participate in the next elections.
Omar Balafrej, 47, who represented this new breath, this positive and ambitious energy in a rigid, closed political field, and above all not representative of Moroccan youth, chose to withdraw with dignity at a time when his project has failed. could not materialize.
Announced 6 months ago in the press, his withdrawal from political life comes at a time when his merger project for the construction of a large unified left federation for which he committed in 2015 has not succeeded. because of blockages within the constituent parties of the Moroccan left.
As a man of integrity, Omar Balafrej explained that he could not stand for new elections when his project was unsuccessful. Not wanting to lie to Moroccans, Omar Balafrej chose the path of wisdom and had a lot of courage, qualities that are lacking in classic Moroccan politicians.
However, despite these conditions which are not met according to him, the popularity of the deputy of the constituency of Rabat-Océan has not dropped one iota in Morocco, and his popularity with young Moroccans remains intact.
A deputy who commands respect through his seriousness and his righteousness, Omar Balafrej indeed embodied, for many Moroccans, a parallel, sincere path, which presented real proposals for change in Morocco, a progressive vision in phase with the current challenges.
And it is this freshness and this sincerity that young Moroccans saw in the left-wing deputy, when they had abandoned their political duty, refusing to take part in a distorted game from the start reinforced by a feeling of discrepancy between their aspirations and those of those who are supposed to represent them.
If Omar Balafrej announced his withdrawal from political life a few months before the holding of legislative elections out of respect for his principles showering the hopes of Moroccan youth, he did not however say his last word.
While he will return to work in entrepreneurship, encouraging young people, he does not lose sight of his civic and political ambitions.
Indeed, even if he left the political office, he is still a member of the party, and could return on the scene one day or the other, undoubtedly when the conditions are met.
